Education: Except Saturday

For four days last week, up to 20,000 of New York City's 212,000
high-school students deserted their classrooms for an unseemly orgy of
picketing, riotous parading, catcalling and general defiance of the
school board, Mayor O'Dwyer, and several hundred New York cops and
truant officers. The only civic group that could conceivably have been
pleased by all this were the demonstrators' teachers. And, in the
circumstances, they were keeping their voices down.

The handbills and placards said that the demonstrating students were out
to help the high-school teachers get more money. Gist of the...